Replication File for "Fundraising for Stigmatized Groups: A Text Message Donation Experiment" 


** Citation **

Linos, Katerina, Laura Jakli, and Melissa Carlson. 2020. "Fundraising for Stigmatized Groups: A Text Message Donation Experiment.” The American Political Science Review. 


Analysis run using Stata version 15.1 



** Datasets **

***Dataset for main analysis***
 
1. SMS_mainvars.dta

-- This dataset contains the data necessary to replicate the tables and figures from the text message experiment. The variables include broad, aggregate data on each person sent a text message, including their age, gender, and ZIP code. We also include ZIP code level demographic variables, including median individual income, child poverty rate, residence in either Attica (which encompasses Greece’s largest city—Athens—and its vicinities) or Central Macedonia (which contains Greece’s second largest city-Thessaloniki). We also include variables indicating whether the person sent a text message resides in a small, mid-sized, or large city. We have an indicator if the person sent a text message donated (‘donated’) and how much they donated, in Euros (‘resp’). The ‘SMS’ variable indicates the treatment assigned. To protect the anonymity of small Roma communities, we include a set of dummy variables indicating whether each SMS recipient lives in a ZIP code with 100+, 125+ … 250+ Roma population present, and another set of dummy variables indicating ZIP codes with informal communities present at those Roma population thresholds (100-250 Roma pop). 'zip_demographics' indicates whether we could find ZIP code level demographics (e.g., median income, child poverty) for a person sent an SMS. Out of 79,638 persons sent a text message, we have ZIP code level demographics on 79,602 of them. Data was unavailable for a few very small ZIP codes.


***Eurobarometer datasets for Appendix I.***

2-7. DatingRoma.csv, DatingRoma_GR.csv, Outgroup.csv, Outgroup_GR.csv, WorkingRoma.csv, and WorkingRoma_GR.csv

-- These 6 datasets are compiled from Eurobarometer data on comfort with the Roma and other out-groups in interpersonal and professional settings. These data are necessary to replicate Appendix I, Figures I.1-I.3. "GR" indicates Greece-specific Eurobarometer data, while all other data are EU-wide. 
 

*** Geospatial datasets for the maps (Figs 1 & 3, and Appendix I.4) ***

8-9. Donations_byZipCodes.csv and ZipCodes_IncomeData.csv

-- These datasets are used to create layers of the maps in the main text and Appendix I using ArcGIS. The corresponding shape files are also included. 



** Stata .do files **


1. FundraisingStigmatized_Replication.do
-- Creates descriptive statistics, regression tables, and coefficient plots for the text message experiment.
-- Output: Figures 2 & 4; Appendix II.1-II.4 & Tables I.3; II.1-II.7; III.1

2. Appendix_I.EurobarometerFigures.do
-- Uses survey data from the 2006, 2009, 2012, and 2015 Special Eurobarometers
on Discrimination in the EU to illustrate descriptive trends on comfort vis-a-vis the Roma minority in the EU and in Greece.
-- Output: Figures I.1-I.3 in Appendix I

